Portrait of Miss Dorothy Long (1703-1758), three-quarter-length, in a white dress with a yellow mantle, a park landscape beyond

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JOHN VANDERBANK (LONDON 1694-1739)
Portrait of Miss Dorothy Long (1703-1758), three-quarter-length, in a white dress with a yellow mantle, a park landscape beyond
signed and dated 'Jno Vanderbank / fecit 1737' (lower left)
oil on canvas
49 7⁄8 x 40 3⁄8 in. (126.7 x 102.5 cm.)

Provenance

Colonel Edmund Portman Awdry, M.C. (1892-1978); (†) Christie's, London, 24 November 1978, lot 79.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 December 2008, lot 173, where incorrectly identified as 'Miss Rachel Long', when acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the eldest daughter of Sir James Long, 5th Bt. (1682-1729), Member of Parliament for Wiltshire, and his wife the Hon. Henrietta Greville (1683-1765), daughter of Fulke, 5th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court. The sitter's younger sister, Miss Rachel Long, was painted by Vanderbank in the same year, and the portrait was sold as the previous lot in the Christie's sale in November 1978.

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